Merkel's Own Party Has Misgivings on Russia Sanctions

Parliamentary Leaders Decline to Discipline Opponents of Sanctions, Military Monitoring

By

Bertrand Benoit

Updated May 6, 2014 3:47 p.m. ET

BERLIN—German Chancellor Angela Merkel's efforts to pressure Russia aren't facing only resistant businesses and skeptical voters. Her own party is now having misgivings too.

Ms. Merkel threatened Moscow with sweeping economic sanctions after meeting with President Barack Obama in Washington on Friday. Yet on Tuesday, the parliamentary leadership of her conservative parties declined to discipline its foreign-policy spokesman—an...